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Jason Leopold / BuzzFeed News:
The Mueller Report's Secret Memos — BuzzFeed News sued the US government for the right to see all the work that Mueller's team kept secret. Today we are publishing the first installment. — The 448-page report issued by then-special counsel Robert Mueller last March …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller interview notes obtained by CNN show Trump's push for stolen emails — (CNN)President Donald Trump and other top 2016 Trump campaign officials repeatedly privately discussed how the campaign could get access to stolen Democratic emails WikiLeaks had in 2016, according …
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The Daily Caller and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Internal Mueller documents show Trump campaign chief pushed unproven theory Ukraine hacked Democrats — President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, suggested as early as the summer of 2016 that Ukrainians might have been responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee during …
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Axios, BuzzFeed News and Raw Story
Washington Post:
A presidential loathing for Ukraine is at the heart of the impeachment inquiry — Three of President Trump's top advisers met with him in the Oval Office in May, determined to convince him that the new Ukrainian leader was an ally deserving of U.S. support.
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Raw Story
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Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
WaPo: WH Record Of Trump-Zelensky Call Put Words In Ukrainian Prez's Mouth, Official Testified — The White House's memorandum of the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put words in the Ukrainian president's mouth that he never said, a White House official testified this week.
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Redstate, The Mahablog, The Week, POLITICUSUSA and Outside the Beltway
Yahoo News:
Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party — WASHINGTON — A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building featured candy, paper airplanes and — concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.
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Redstate, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, New York Post and The Hill
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Smugglers are sawing through new sections of Trump's border wall — SAN DIEGO — Smuggling gangs in Mexico have repeatedly sawed through new sections of President Trump's border wall in recent months by using commercially available power tools, opening gaps large enough for people and drug loads …
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Politico, HuffPost, Vox, WQAD-TV, Rolling Stone, Occupy Democrats, Mother Jones, Slate, POLITICUSUSA, Balloon Juice, News Breaking and Axios
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Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Health-Care Requirement for New Immigrants — A new policy would have required new immigrants to show proof of health insurance or the means to afford it — A federal court has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a policy that would require …
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Associated Press:
US judge blocks Trump's health insurance rule for immigrants — PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday put on hold a Trump administration rule requiring immigrants prove they will have health insurance or can pay for medical care before they can get visas.
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire:
Elizabeth Warren Asked What Will Happen To Health Insurance Workers Under Medicare-For-All …
Elizabeth Warren Asked What Will Happen To Health Insurance Workers Under Medicare-For-All …
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Redstate, Power Line and Breitbart
James Crowley / Newsweek:
Pete Buttigieg Says Democratic Race Is Shaping Up to Be a ‘Two-Way’ Between Him and Elizabeth Warren — South Bend, Indiana Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said in a new interview that he believes the race for his party's nomination will be between Senator Elizabeth Warren and himself.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, New York Times and Mediaite
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
At Iowa's Democratic dinner, Warren and Buttigieg take aim at one another
At Iowa's Democratic dinner, Warren and Buttigieg take aim at one another
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The Hill
Giovanni Russonello / New York Times:
5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll
5 Takeaways From the Latest Iowa Poll
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Politico, The Daily Caller and CNN
New York Times:
In Trump's Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies — In September, an obscure Twitter account promoting a fringe belief about an anti-Trump cabal within the government tweeted out a hashtag: #FakeWhistleblower. — It was typical for the anonymous account …
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Mashable, New York Post and Political Wire
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Castro fights to stay in race as staff looks for other jobs — Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Julián Castro plans to refocus his 2020 presidential campaign on Iowa, Nevada and Texas in the coming days and is supporting his staffers looking for jobs with other campaigns, sources familiar with the plans tell CNN.
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The Hill
David Siders / Politico:
Inside Beto O'Rourke's collapse — DES MOINES, Iowa — As night fell and his staffers led him through the drizzle to his rented Dodge Grand Caravan for the last time, Beto O'Rourke was asked Friday by a reporter, “What do you think went wrong for you?” — He didn't answer, allowing the question …
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The Daily Beast
NewsHound Ellen / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Tucker Carlson's Very Creepy Smear Of Adam Schiff: Impeachment In ‘Steamy, Unhinged Letters Using His Own Body Fluids’ — Fox's Tucker Carlson probably grossed out a large number of viewers with what he must have imagined was a hilarious smear of Rep. Adam Schiff over impeachment. — Views:
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Hullabaloo
Connor Mannion / Mediaite:
Fox News Guest Invited to Talk About Military Dogs Blurts Out Jeffrey 'Epstein Didn't Kill Himself' — A former Navy SEAL invited to talk about military dogs on Jesse Watters' Fox News show also offered some unprompted and unexpected thoughts about the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Breitbart
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Bill Maher's Show Has Gone Completely Off the Rails — On Friday night, the host of HBO's “Real Time” welcomed an anti-vaxxer and a right-wing propagandist onto his show. At times, he sided with both. — In February of 2017, Bill Maher, the “politically incorrect” satirist and stand-up comic …
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Hollywood in Toto
New York Daily News:
Boos, cheers greet Trump as he enters UFC event in Madison Square Garden — President Trump pumped his fist in the air as the crowd booed and cheered him when he arrived Saturday night at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event at Madison Square Garden. — It was a friendlier reaction …
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Associated Press and The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump's defenders need to stop pretending impeachment is a criminal trial — President Trump's defenders have a problem: His conduct with Ukraine has thus far proved to be indefensible. — Unsurprisingly, then, rather than justify the substance of what he did, his allies have fallen back on complaints about the impeachment process.
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Breitbart
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump lies about CNN at Mississippi rally — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump stood before thousands of supporters in Mississippi on Friday night, squinted and pointed, and told them he was seeing something that was not actually happening. — Trump criticized CNN at length at his campaign rally in Tupelo.
New York Times:
Russia Held Up an Ailing American Military Attaché From Leaving Moscow — The American was safely evacuated, but the episode was the latest indication that Russian intimidation of American officials has reached levels unseen since the Cold War. — WASHINGTON — Russian officials …
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track — Speaker questions appeal of Medicare For All, Green New Deal — Ideas could repel voters in swing Midwestern states, she says — Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020 …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Jr. Has a Few Grievances to Air in Upcoming Book — President's oldest son also shares some personal anecdotes — Video-gaming with Michael Jackson; debating Obama's Nobel — The president's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., airs some of the family's grievances over the probe …
The Guardian:
Johnson 'knew about Vote Leave's illegal overspend', says MP — Prime minister accused of ‘sitting on information’ after EU referendum — Boris Johnson knew of Vote Leave's overspend during the 2016 EU referendum, but appears to have failed to tell the authorities, according to explosive new claims from a senior MP.
Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Christopher England elected new Alabama Democratic Party chair — State Rep. Chris England answers questions following his election as the Chair of the Alabama Democratic Party — Rep. Christopher England, D-Tuscaloosa, was elected Alabama Democratic Party chair on Saturday …